You must have gotten the last one. I talked to a guy there and he said they are out of them. My two Tiawanese replacement coils showed up today

The coil on my truck went out after 7 years of my owning it, and who knows how long it was in the truck before I bought it. I have a couple of the Chrome Chinese knockoffs coming from VPW, but I'd prefer a good "Made in USA" coil. I'd buy used or NOS. Does anyone have one, or more, that th...

Darn it! VPW is out of NOS coils. Chromie Chinese crap coils should be here soon

I got my NOS coil from VPW and it was perfect, no issues at all. That is where I ordered mine from. At a premium price though. The old one which was in my truck when I bought it lasted for seven years with me, and who knows how long before I got the truck. I just hate having to buy a spare for the ...

Thanks for doing some checking on this Bob. I had done a lot of searching and had come up with conflicting numbers, usually for the primary side resistance. It seems like 6 ohms is about right for the primary. I have a NOS coil coming. It is kind of a crapshoot though. I don't know if it is a decent...

I found NOS coils on VPW for $120. Ouch! I have one coming, along with several hundred dollars in random parts.

Thanks Carter. I didn't think 1 ohm seemed right. neither of the two coils I have fall in the desired range, so I think I will order new ones. Edit. In doing some internet searching, Is our coil shared by some other military vehicles? Also, the chromed ones from china with no markings on them seem t...

One other thing. I don't run a truck radio of any sort. Is there any reason to keep the radio filter in the distributor? I am assuming cell phones are not affected by the interference of the old truck.

Are you guys sure about those primary ohm readings? I read a lot of searches about it on this site and I never saw .5 to 1 ohm for a primary resistance. More like 6 to 12 ohms. I was reading them like the downloaded picture showed, but out of the distributor. I think I will order a couple of new coi...

Carter, In that picture, shouldn't there be a reading from terminal A to B?

Isaac, knowing that, I'd guess I could make an appropriate thickness aluminum spacer to go under the capacitor. Thanks for the heads up

Hi guys. My truck has been running great until a couple of weeks ago. Then it was temperamental to start, and it had developed a skip. Last week it went from running ok, to totally dead in one second. It just died, and would not even try to start. I was uphill of my house, so I coasted home fortunat...

tinmedic, any chance you could post the model of your batteries? I can't seem to be able to zoom in on your pictures. I like how they are snug in the battery box. There are no side terminals on your red top batteries, are there?

When I brought my truck, I put new batteries in it, but ran it with a center tap 12v electric pump for a couple of years until I installed a 24v pump. My batteries are now six or seven years old, but they don't seem to hold a charge. I'm thinking of going to Optima batteries, like I run in my daily ...

When I bought my truck, it was in a fire department and had not run for several years. They took pretty good care of it and kept it in a heated garage, but they had pulled the batteries to put in the HUMVEE which replaced the M37. I changed the oil and antifreeze, bought two new batteries, and put a...

Hi Guys, I found this subject a bit fascinating..........so I dug around a bit on the web. Seems the wintergreen oil does work, which surprises me. I wonder if it works on old hard tires? I'm actually thinking about soaking one of my NOS wiring harnesses before I install it to help it live longer. ...